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Are Smart People Actually Happier? - Adam Mastroianni - #585

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Life is hard. This podcast will help. Lessons from the greatest thinkers on the planet with Chris Williamson. Including guests like David Goggins, Dr Jordan Peterson, Naval Ravikant, Sam Harris, Jocko Willink, Dr Andrew Huberman, Dr Julie Smith, Steven Bartlett, Ryan Holiday, Robert Greene, Matthew McConaughey, Alain de Botton, Alex Hormozi, Tony Robbins, Chris Bumstead, Mark Manson and more.

Adam Mastroianni is a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia Business School and a writer whose research focuses on how people perceive and misperceive their social worlds. Does being smart make you happy? Does being dumb make you miserable? Why did the guy who created eugenics also get published in Nature for a revolutionary way to cut a cake? Adam is one of my favourite writers so today I get to ask him all these things. Expect to learn why super smart people can be so stupid, Adam's issue with the productivity approach of eating frogs, whether you can learn arithmetic by smell, why humans misjudge what other people want to talk about, why we forget so many of the things that we've learned, how come it's trendy to call the general public stupid and much more... Sponsors: Get 83% discount & 3 months free from Surfshark VPN at <a href= "https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM">https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM</a> (use code MODERNWISDOM) Get 5 Free Travel Packs, Free Liquid Vitamin D and more from Athletic Greens at <a href= "https://athleticgreens.com/modernwisdom">https://athleticgreens.com/modernwisdom</a> (discount automatically applied) Get 20% discount on House Of Macadamias’ nuts at <a href="https://houseofmacadamias.com/modernwisdom">https://houseofmacadamias.com/modernwisdom</a> (use code MW20) Extra Stuff: Follow Adam's Substack - <a href= "https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/">https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/</a> Check out Adam's website - <a href= "https://www.adammastroianni.com/">https://www.adammastroianni.com/</a>  <a href="https://chriswillx.com/books/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/</a> To support me on Patreon (thank you): <a href= "https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom">https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom</a> - Get in touch. Instagram: <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx">https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx</a> Twitter: <a href= "https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx">https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx</a> YouTube: <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast">https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast</a> Email: <a href= "https://chriswillx.com/contact/">https://chriswillx.com/contact/</a>

Adam Mastroianni is a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia Business School and a writer whose research focuses on how people perceive and misperceive their social worlds.

Does being smart make you happy? Does being dumb make you miserable? Why did the guy who created eugenics also get published in Nature for a revolutionary way to cut a cake? Adam is one of my favourite writers so today I get to ask him all these things.

Expect to learn why super smart people can be so stupid, Adam's issue with the productivity approach of eating frogs, whether you can learn arithmetic by smell, why humans misjudge what other people want to talk about, why we forget so many of the things that we've learned, how come it's trendy to call the general public stupid and much more...

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Get 20% discount on House Of Macadamias’ nuts at https://houseofmacadamias.com/modernwisdom (use code MW20)

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro
(05:23) Why Aren’t Smart People Happier?
(16:25) Adam’s Issue with ‘Eating the Frog’
(25:12) The Strange Work & Tests of Sir Francis Galton
(34:31) How We Misjudge Conversations
(38:26) What the Media is Overlooking in Society
(41:04) Why We Forget So Much of What We Learn
(49:45) How Adam Overcomes Writer’s Block
(1:00:30) How We Misperceive the Sanity of Others
(1:06:55) Is It Possible to Overcome our Inherent Biases?
(1:11:11) Where to Find Adam

Extra Stuff:

Follow Adam's Substack - https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/

Check out Adam's website - https://www.adammastroianni.com/ 

Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/

To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom

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